Re: Unicode awareness for pg-socket backend on SBCL

On Wed, 06 Apr 2005 18:55:38 +0300, Janis Dzerins <[email protected]> wrote:

> Attached is a patch that modifies postgresql-socket-api.lisp so that
> it works when a database has a UNICODE "character set" *on my box*.
> This is a hack, but at least I can use my data.
>
> The right way would be to find out necessary character set from
> postgresql, and use that when communicating (which I don't know how
> to get at, yet).  My modifications use the default external format
> (which can be changed by environment variables in the shell for
> SBCL).

I haven't looked at the patch but wouldn't, say,

  (execute-command "set client_encoding to 'LATIN1'")

suffice or am I missing something?

Cheers,
Edi.